This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on 20200624 by Akshyeta Suryanarayan

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of Dataset: Data supporting PhD thesis: "What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis"

Author Information (Akshyeta Suryanarayan, University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, akshyeta@gmail.com)

	Principal Investigator: Akshyeta Suryanarayan
	Associate or Co-investigator: Dr Cameron Petrie and Dr Tamsin O'Connell 
	
Date of data collection: 20151201 to 20191231

Geographic location of data collection: New Delhi, India; Pune, India; London, United Kingdom; York, United Kingdom; Cambridge, United Kingdom


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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC BY-NC

Recommended citation for the data: Suryanarayan, A. (2020). What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.50249

Citation for and links to publications that cite or use the data: Suryanarayan, A., M. Cubas, O. E. Craig, C. P. Heron, V. Shinde, R. N. Singh, T. C. O'Connell, C. A. Petrie. Organic residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India. Submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science.

Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: Please refer to Suryanarayan et al. submitted


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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File list (filenames, directory structure (for zipped files) and brief description of all data files):

IRMS files (abbreviations are site codes, please refer to thesis for details)
2018_07_12_results_ALM_RGR.xlsx	
2018_07_12_results_and_2018_07_31_results_ALM_LHRI_RGR.xlsx	
2018_08_01_results_ALM_RGR.xlsx	
2018_08_04_results_MSDI_MSDVII_RGR.xlsx	
2018_08_06_results_FRN.xlsx	
2018_08_08_results_KNK_MSDVII_LHRI_STI.xlsx	
2018_08_10_results_MSDI_MSDVII_STI.xlsx	
2018_08_13_results_MSDI_MSDVII_STI_ALM.xlsx	

R Markdown files (for figures produced in Chapters 6 and 7):
Chapter 6 Figures.Rmd	
Figures for Chapter 7.Rmd	

Data files (to be loaded into R for producing figures in Chapters 6 and 7):
FA_percentages_allsites.csv	
myinterpretableGCMSdata_nosoil.csv	
myinterpretableGCMSdata.csv	

GC-MS data (images of chromatograms). Abbreviations are site codes, please refer to thesis for details)
20170516 - MSDI.zip	
20170517 - MSDI and MSDVII.zip	
20170522 - MSDVII.zip	
20170524 - ALM.zip	
20170601 - MSDI MSDVII and ALM.zip	
20171109 - LHRI and MSDI.zip	
20171114 - LHRI.zip	
20171116 - RGR.zip	
20171117 - RGR.zip	
20171123 - FRN.zip	
20171124 - FRN and KNK.zip	
20171127 - KNK and LHRI.zip	
20171130 - diluted and BSTFA derivatised - KNK LHRI MSDI.zip	
20171201 - solvent extracted - FRN KNK LHRI MSDI MSDVII RGR.zip	
20160303 - KLB.zip	
20160303 - MD.zip	
20160303 - ST1.zip



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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: please see Suryanarayan 2020 or Suryanarayan et al. submitted

Methods for processing the data: as above

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: R Studio and Agilent Chemstation or Masshunter

Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: see Suryanarayan 2020. 

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: see Suryanarayan 2020 and Suryanarayan et al. submitted



Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: